Scores for Orchestra

Orchestral material according to the new Beethoven Complete Edition by G. Henle Verlag. All conducting scores and orchestral parts are available exclusively from Breitkopf & Härtel.

Exploring the Eroica was the title of the essay with which the editor emerged as early as 1998 and made a significant contribution to researching the complex tradition. The autograph of the work, comp...

The Famous One in the Leading Edition Beethoven spent a relatively long time on his 5th Symphony. Thus, first sketches can already be found from as early as 1804, four years before the work was premie...

During his Bohemian spa trip in September 1811, Beethoven notated the first sketches for the Seventh Symphony, a work that occupied him until May 1812 - parallel at times with its disparate sister wor...

Since 2001 the 'Ninth' has been included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. Beethoven was preoccupied with his unique work for many years, since at least 1815, and still shortly before his deat...

Orchestral material according to the new Beethoven Complete Edition by G. Henle Verlag. All conducting scores and orchestral parts are available exclusively from Breitkopf & Härtel.

Louis Spohr's technically, extremely demanding concertos have long been part of clarinetists' standard repertoire. Like the first clarinet concerto, this second concerto was composed for the clarineti...

Many well-known violinists such as the dedicatee Pablo de Sarasate, together later with Eugène Ysaye and Jacques Thibaud, included in their repertoires Camille Saint-Saëns' concert piece composed in 1...

Paganini’s Capricci served as inspiration for many composers. In addition to Brahms, Schumann and Liszt, Rachmaninoff was also inspired by the idea. His Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini has since becom...

Shortly after the Second World War, Richard Strauss, then 80 years old, had remained safe in his villa in Garmisch, though cultural life in Europe had come to a complete standstill. The American occup...

In his compositions, Richard Strauss demonstrates his deep understanding of the character of the Romantic horn. He achieved his greatest success in this respect with his first horn concerto, which - a...

Something "completely new and unheard-of" would be offered to the audience, Robert Schumann wrote to Franz Liszt at the end of 1851, referring to the premiere of his "dramatic poem" Manfred. Already a...

Russian music researcher Polina Vajdman has gone back to all relevant sources in her editing.

For the 'Fidelio' overture, composed at lightning speed in 1814, a copy of the score in the Austrian National Library today provides a reliable basis for a new text-critical edition.

Schumann's 'Sinfonietta' in the Urtext The intensity with which Schumann dealt with the symphony is shown not only by the four known works themselves, but also by compositions that stand between the g...

1936 erhielt Béla Bartók von seinem Schweizer Mäzen Paul Sacher den Kompositionsauftrag zur "Musik für Saiteninstrumente, Schlagzeug und Celesta". Bartók gelang dabei eines der großen Meisterwerke des...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all the four movements en...

Of all his symphonies, Mahler gave the Fourth, his favorite and problem child, his most particular attention. 'The Heavenly Life,' a humoresque composed in 1892 for soprano and piano, which he already...

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his 'Don Juan') of his reputation and above all of his 'value' as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by...

Joachim Raff's Fifth Symphony "Lenore" op. 177, composed in 1872, reveals the composer as a representative of the middle ground between Neo-German aesthetics and the symphonic tradition. It owes its n...

Strauss had originally intended that Don Quixote always be performed, if possible, together with Heldenleben, “since Don Q. in particular is only fully comprehensible alongside Heldenleben.” To date,...

“The Blue Danube“ is said to be Austria’s secret anthem, and alongside the “Radetzky March” it is the traditional encore piece at the annual New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Al...

Johann Strauß Sohn revolutionized the Viennese waltz in the 19th century and made it popular all over the world. His works, such as the famous waltzes "The Beautiful Blue Danube" op. 314 and "Tales fr...

Die Neue Robert Schumann-Ausgabe (RSA) versteht sich als historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe. Gemäß dem neuesten Stand der musikwissenschaftlichen Editionstechnik sollen sämtliche Werke sorgfältig aufb...

Characters: Heinrich Heine I (narrator) in the armchair/Heinrich Heine II (baritone) on the mattress bed "Characters from Heine's life": Soprano, tenor (larger parts), mezzo-soprano, alto, baritone, b...